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1:01 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN Ryan Ellis was already being coveted as a potential July 2019 unrestricted free agent — as the kind of defenseman a team could build a blue line around. Which is why Nashville Predators general manager David Poile didn’t allow him to get within sniffing distance of the open market, signing

A lot has changed since the last dynasty league list was published way back on April 5. Despite just a handful of regular-season games taking place in between, we’ve seen the NHL playoffs, free agency, the draft and early reports from rookie camps. The fantasy hockey season is intense for fantasy coverage when it’s unfolding

2:30 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN While Erik Karlsson might disagree, it’s been an eventful offseason in the NHL from a player transaction standpoint. Not only with the free-agent frenzy producing the John Tavares blockbuster and several other notable deals, but with teams hanging onto their own players on long-term extensions. Many of these contracts are

After a career-high 37 points last season, forward Christian Dvorak was rewarded by the Arizona Coyotes with a six-year extension. The 22-year-old’s deal carries an annual average value of $4.45 million, according to reports. “We are very pleased to sign Christian to a long-term contract,” Coyotes general manager John Chayka said in a statement. “Christian

Nashville Predators general manager David Poile headlines the 2018 class of the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame. Former University of Michigan coach Red Berenson, three-time Olympic medalist Natalie Darwitz, retired NHL referee Paul Stewart, Poile and the late Leland “Hago” Harrington will be inducted on Dec. 12 at a ceremony in Nashville, Tennessee. Poile has

10:38 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN John Miner could always tell when an opponent was going to drop the reference. It was always a player imported from North America to his pro hockey league in Austria or Switzerland. They’d give him a glance, then smile, and then say some variation of the following: “Oh, there ya

As the 2018-19 NHL season draws closer, we’ve released our top 300 rankings for fantasy. As you rummage through the lineup, the ranking of some players might jump off the page. Sure, Connor McDavid topping the board isn’t going to surprise many, but there is some interesting ordering thereafter. Here are my first impressions of

2:10 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN The notion of “restricted free agency” ranks right up there with “jumbo shrimp” and “deafening silence” in the oxymoronic hall of fame. None of the NHL players that qualify for it are “free” to do anything but remain shackled to the team that holds their rights. Sure, it could be

BEIJING — Wayne Gretzky has been named a global ambassador for Beijing’s Kunlun Red Star as the Chinese capital seeks to boost the profile of hockey domestically ahead of hosting the Winter Olympics in 2022. Gretzky will focus on youth development in China, including a planned KRS-Gretzky Hockey School that will provide advanced training for

6:05 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN Stan Mikita, a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame and the leading scorer in Chicago Blackhawks history, died Tuesday at age 78, according to a statement from his family. Mikita played 1,396 games in the NHL from 1958 to 1980, all of them with the Blackhawks, to lead the